Great weather for a photowalk

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My employer has a casual dress policy on Fridays, which makes Fridays the perfect day for a photowalk in the CBD. So on Friday a couple weeks ago I decided to bring the camera to work with me.

Given that I still planned to bring my regular gear to work with me (notebook, novel, wallet, keys, iPod, earphones, etc.), I wanted to travel light in terms of my camera bag, especially since I was going to be carrying it around the CBD with me. So I limited myself to 2 fairly light lenses. I also thought I’d aim wide (I usually only shoot really wide doing landscapes) and go for that photojournalist street photography look. If you know me then you know I’m no street photographer, so I was challenging myself to shoot outside of my confort zone. Anyway, so I brought my Tokina 12-24mm f/4 zoom and my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 prime. As it turns out I could have left the 50mm at home as it never came out of the camera bag that day.

When I leave home at 5:30am each morning it’s usually pitch black, so I had no idea what the day would look like. As it turned out the weather wasn’t very amenable to a photowalk and it started teaming within about 5 minutes of me getting the camera out of the bag. So, I decided to cut the walk short. But stuck outside with a digital SLR, that wasn’t weather-sealed, in the teaming rain, what was I supposed to do? I had to wait it out a bit for a lull otherwise my camera would probably drown. May as well take a few shots of fellow CBDers stuck in the rain too…